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dent of her coal supply. Lord John Russell entertained the idea, and ordered plans and estimates to be drawn up. Moreover, a provisional Bill had been, it is said, actually drafted to carry out the scheme, when the overthrow of the Government caused the collapse of the project, which was popularly known as " Braile's Big Well."

I should be obliged for any information, especially contemporary references, con- cerning the above visionary scheme. There is no mention of it in Walpole's life of Earl Russell. The Index to The Times has also been searched in vain ; and there is no entry under the name of Braile in the Patent Office Index. H. G. ARCHER.

29, Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W.

MOORE'S ' LALLA ROOKH.' We are told in Lord John Russell's ' Memoirs of Moore ' (vol. i. p. xxiv) that Samuel Rogers furnished Moore with the subject of his poem of ' Lalla Rookh.' That poem, Moore was told, had been translated into Persian (iii. 167). Has it an Oriental original ? The embedded stories are understood to be original, but the framework apparently was suggested by Rogers.

In the recently published ' Haremlik ' of Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown) there is a vivid account of Massaljhe- Hiran, "the world-famed story-teller" of Constantinople. The particular tale which is described is identical in substance with the story of " Lalla Rookh " and her disguised bridegroom. Is this a case of the East borrowing from the West, or is the East only claiming its rights of prior possession ?

WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Manchester.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS : HER SPUR AND BROOCH. Mary, Queen of Scots, on her way between Hermitage Castle and Jed- burgh after her visit to the wounded Both- well, is said to have been " bogged " in a dangerous morass. I have been told that fairly recently a gilt spur and brooch, supposed to have belonged to the Queen, have been dug up on her route. Can any one give me particulars of the discovery ?

L. C D

ENGLISH COUNTESS AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS. I shall be deeply obliged to any one who can help me to identify this lady, who so far is a mystery to me. The following is all I know of her. She was born probably between 1 645 and 1 650. Her Christian name was a " very unusual " one ; she had a sister ; she was the cousin of either Lady

Chesterfield, the daughter of the Duke of Ormonde, or the Tatter's sister-in-law, Mary, Countess of Arran, only child of James, Duke of Lennox and Richmond, by Mary his wife, daughter of the first Buckingham. Her husband's title began with a consonant ; he had property in South Wales, and held a post at Court. She was a gambler, and had a not altogether merited reputation for prudery.

GEORGE GILBERT. Wentworth House, Keymer, Sussex.

CHILDREN IN DIFFERENT AGES. I shall be grateful if any reader will refer me to a competent book dealing with the treat- ment of children in different ages and countries. Please reply direct.

THURSTAN PETER. Redruth.

SIR HORACE MANN. Where can I obtain information respecting the pedigree and early years of Sir Horace Mann ?

I. GlBERNE SlEVEKING. 1, Exmouth Place, Hastings. [Have you consulted the bibliography at the end of the article on Mann in the ' D.N.B.' ?]

The Town and Country Magazine, vol. xvii., 1785, p. 345, is an article entitled 'Memoirs of the Favourite Captain and the Modern Chaste Lucretia,' with a portrait of each. I should be much obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could inform me who the " Favourite Captain " was.
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F. M. R. HOLWORTHY,

Bromley, Kent.

[JN/lR. BLEACKLEY identifies him as Capt. Buckley. See 10 S. iv. 464.]

FRENCH TAXES REMITTED. In what French village, and by whom, were the taxes "remitted for ever " t How long did this, privilege last, and when did it cease ?

(Mrs.) B. NAIRNE.

Symonds House, Winchester.

TRESSEVELEN, TREMAYLE, AND TRIVETT FAMILIES. In 1382 Richard Tressevelen was living at Blackmore, in the parish of Canning ton, Somerset, as appears by the Somerset Assize Rolls. In 1500 the manor of Blackmore, Cannington, was the property and residence of the Tremayle family, and by the marriage of the heiress of that family,. Margery Tremayle, to Nicholas Halswell, Esq. (Recorder of Bridgwater, 1557-63, and M.P. for that borough in 1553 and 1563),. became the property of the Halswell family of Halswell, Somerset.